Posted on 12/13/2005 10:11:12 AM PST by NotchJohnson
WHEN I'M WRONG, I'M WRONG It looks like I missed on two predictions yesterday. First, Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't grant clemency to the murderous Tookie Williams. He was put to a much-deserved death last night.. It only took the State of California 24 years to carry out a sentence entered in 1981. Williams should have been shot-gunned to death, the same way his victims did. Second, there was no rioting in Los Angeles. Everyone's flat-screen TV and Ibox seems to be safe, for now. Someone correctly opined yesterday that it was too cold in Los Angeles for riots right now. The Rodney King Riots were in late April of 1992, when things were a lot warmer in Southern California. The infamous Watts riots were in August of 1965. Thirty-four people died in those riots, and the temperatures were high. Whatever the excuse, I got both predictions wrong. We'll add these errors to my prediction that The Poodle was going to win the presidential election last year. I'm standing by my victory for Hillary prediction ... for now.
By the way, did you notice some of the protest signs outside San Quentin yesterday? Some of the sponsoring organizations were International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the Socialist Worker's Party. Two peas in a pod. I'm glad they were disappointed.
This morning CNN was asking the question "What did we gain by Tookie William's execution?" The CNN anchor says the coverage of the execution was "gripping." She talked about Tookie looking up in frustration because they couldn't get the IV into his arm. Somehow the anchor didn't mention the look in the eyes of the couple that Williams shot while they were laying on their stomachs in a back room of their small hotel. After about 30 minutes of CNN's "all Tookie all the time" it was time to switch to Fox.
OK ... I'll tell you what was gained by the execution. First, Tookie Williams is no more. Second, the sentence of a court of law has been carried out. We have a government of law, and when the government follows that law, as it did in this execution, our entire society benefits.
In the midst of this media orgy of sympathy for Tookie, a short review of just some of his criminal history might be in order:
Since the press won't bring you up to date, perhaps we can help out. Tookie was convicted of murdering 7-11 clerk Albert Owens by shooting him twice in the back with a shotgun. Tookie bragged to his friends afterward that "you should have heard the way he sounded when I shot him," and then laughed about doing it. Then there was the Yang family. Tsai-Shai Yang, Yen-I Yang, and their daughter, Yee Chen Lin were immigrants from Taiwan...and they ran a motel in South Central Los Angeles. That was, until Tookie came on the scene. On March 11, 1979, Tookie kicked down the door to the motel office and shot all three and killed them, again with a shotgun.
So off Tookie went to death row. But if you listen to the media, we're supposed to believe Tookie became an angel in prison, right? Wrong...let's take a look at the Tookster's prison record and his "conversion." But wait...if you listen to the Hollywood left, we're supposed to believe Tookie was a model prisoner...he's reformed! He's renounced his killing ways! Not if you look at the facts.
In 1981, Williams was caught beating up an other inmate with his fists, and ignored orders to stop. In 1982, Williams refused to an order to line up...and told a guard "you'll get yours boy, I can do anything now because I know what the gunmen will do...one of these days I'll trick you boy." Twice that same year, Tookie attacked guards with chemical substances. In 1984, Tookie was back to beating up another inmate...and didn't stop until a guard fired a warning shot. Also in 1984, Williams was caught making out with a female visitor. He told the guard then "you are looking around too much and that's not your job. I have dusted many officers on the street, one more would not make any difference." Sounds reformed to me. But there's more...1986...he beat up another inmate. 1988..he was stabbed in retaliation for a stabbing he ordered of another inmate. 1991...Tookie was again caught beating up another inmate. Same thing again in 1993. Get the idea?
It's nice to be wrong once in a while.
It ain't the first time nor the last for Neal.
All the more reason to make sure he died.
I wonder if he was able to take flame resistant underwear into eternity with him? He may need it.
Neal is generally not hopeful about the future of our society so that influences everything. Can't blame him really. Didn't know he converted to Islam. That in itself has to hurt any rehabilitation more than anything while in prison.
But does he still get a shot at the 72 dancing virgins? LOL.
Amen.
Well, there's no way to know that, but at least we can be assured that he has become a "good Muslim".
Yes, he comes off pessimistic and bitter at times, but also can be funny and insightful. I prefer Reagan's and GWB's and Rush's optimism.
Didn't know Tookie converted to islam either. Unfortunately for him, Islam is a cult, not a religion.
I've never really cared for Neal Bores.
I thought I was wrong, once, but I was mistaken.........
I don't get him on the radio in my neck of the woods, but I've read some of his ponderings. Some good, some stupid.
There was never going to be any rioting in Los Angeles or anywhere else. That was only in the minds of the "racist" NAACP leadership!!! The gravy train for Blacks in this country is over. After the good glimpse Americans got of "Nagin's" finest from New Orleans as they went about America destroying hotel rooms, apartments, rental cars, robbing and raping, Black racism ain't going nowhere. Black folk better wake and get real. The Jesse Jackson types and the Democrat Party ain't helping you one bit. See, you gotta go out and work for a living like the rest of us slobs!!!
I heard several reporters mentioning this. Are they going to use it as an example of "cruel and unusual punishment?" Is it possible that the doctors had trouble with the IV because he was so bulked up from weightlifting?
-PJ
The justifications that the anti-death penalty crowd tried to use to gain clemency just astounded me (although they shouldn't have). He wrote a childrens' book, so that should let him off the hook? He was NOMINATED for the Nobel Peace Prize several times, and that should be enough for clemency (Yassir Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize; nuff said)? He shot a guy in the back as he laid face down on the floor, and then laughed for several minutes after doing it; that is genuinely evil, and he got what he deserved. I'm glad that Arnold overcame his RINO leanings, and showed the testicular fortitude to not grant clemency.
Boortz is an extreme libertarian. Sometimes I disagree with him, but he writes well and is often on the mark.
This is the first I have read about all these prison offenses, so let's give him credit for doing a little research, unlike the entire MSM. I had read about the shotgun shootings, which were despicable.
If you listen to that actor (I think he was on MASH) he was a saint who could turn gansters around. Remember the t shirts of Tu Pac and Biggee Smalls? Watch for t shirst of him. Serious, if I was in the business I would make a killing of of them.
It's hard to make the call on who's creepier - the Hollywood sicko's who back every goon/killer who walks or the Hollywood idiots who don't know the guy they're backing is still a monster. Too close to call...
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